Alexey Khludov

You may be asked by JetBrains team to collect a performance backend snapshot of a Rider process with dotTrace profiler. Please follow the below instruction for macOS and Linix-based systems: Down...

Problem Rider frequently becomes stuck in "Background Tasks", or experiences backend process crashes. This issue is similar to the one detailed in this article. It might be a common problem after i...

By default, Rider reopens the project that was open when Rider was last closed. This behaviour can be changed in the preferences Appearance & Behaviour > System Settings > Reopen last project on st...

Because the IntelliJ platform supports projects that can be folder or file based. This means it can recognise a file (such as my.sln) or a folder as a project. This behaviour isn’t possible with th...

The problem: JetBrains Rider throws "MsBuild model already detached from protocol - a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries" exception if Mono 4.2.x is used. The solution: ...

JetBrains Rider automatically detects unit tests and provides a unit test runner to run and debug them. We are continuously improving unit testing with JetBrains Rider, but there are still some are...

The error message may appear after 1st Rider startup (just after activating 30-day evaluation) and may look like this: Reason: Rider stores a couple of settings related to evaluation license in it...

You have made some changes but Rider sticks to an old build? First of all, have a look at your Run/Debug Configuration and make sure that "Build project before run" is added to the list of actions ...

NB: In order to run MSTest v1 tests, Rider needs to use a console unit test runner that is distributed with Visual Studio and requires Visual Studio license. By selecting a Visual Studio installati...

"Visual Studio Team Services" plugin, which is bundled with Rider and recommended for TFVC integration, needs TF command line tool. The path to TF executable in Rider settings (File | Settings | Ve...